This document discusses the importance of math and science in 21st century education. It recommends incorporating more digital experiences for students, such as using YouTube to watch explanatory videos, having students create podcasts to present projects, taking virtual tours through Secondlife, creating "vokis" to explain concepts, developing WebQuests to explore educational websites and games, and using smart boards for interactive learning. The document emphasizes that math and science cultivate creative and analytical thinking skills that are applicable to daily life.

1. MATH AND SCIENCE
Brandie Smith and Lauren Legge

2. Math and Science
• Characteristics: Creative Thinking, Applicability, and
Effectiveness
• Importance: “Literary science, mathematics, and
technology is not an option for the citizens of the 21st
century.”
• Role in 21st Century Education: Incorporate a more digital
experience for our students.

3. YouTube
• Show videos of different topics in math that explain
different ways to go about a topic.
• Examples: multiplication, division, addition,
subtraction, etc.
• Show videos of different topics to help explains the
reasoning behind why things happen the way they do.
• Examples: life cycles, plants, precipitation, etc.

4. Podcast
• Have each student create a podcast to present an oral
presentation in the form of a podcast.
• Examples: present science fair project, multiplication
tables, create rhyme, song or poem to help remember a
certain topic.

5. Secondlife
• Take kids through virtual tours.
• Examples: museums, statues, many parts of the
world to see different climates, etc.

6. Voki
• Create vokis to tell about different math topics.
• Examples: multiplication tables, division, addition,
subtraction, etc.
• Create a voki that tells about different science topics.
• Examples: life cycles, plant diagrams, precipitation,
erosion, etc.

7. WebQuest
• Create WebQuests to explore many different sites and
games.
• Examples: games for practicing mathematic problems,
websites exploring different educational sites for
science, games for labeling any topic studied in
science.

8. Visuals and Materials
• Use a smart board to have students interact with
classmates while learning about all subjects in math
and science.
• Examples for Math: have children solve math
problems on the smart board to help each other learn
the topics.
• Examples for Science: have children label and
identify.

9. Conclusion
• Math and science are not only important as subjects, but
also as thought processes.
• The application of scientific thought has a broader range
than math or science, but can be applied to various daily
life situations.
• Grasping these principals will create a more well
rounded student

10. Works Cited
• http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/09/09/five-
characteristics-of-an-effective-21st-century-educator/
• http://mathscitech.org/articles/characteristics-mathematics
• http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/national%20findings%20sp
eak%20up%202007.pdf